Sign



C. A. SMITH June 7, 1938.

SIGN

Filed June 10, 19s? Patented June 7, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Signco, Inc., Ohio Perrysburg, Ohio, a. corporation of Application June 10, 1937, Serial No. 147,436

2 Claims.

This invention relates to attention-directing displays.

This invention has utility when incorporated in portable signs having collapsible shadow box features therewith.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation, with parts broken away, of an embodiment of the invention in a unit hereunder;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation from the right of Fig. 1, parts being broken away;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the device of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a view of the blank, say of cardboard, forming the ventilation extension and the back;

Fig. 6 is an elevation of the blank for the frame and wings;

Fig. 7 is a view from the rear of the collapsed assembly of the. sign as a unit; and

Fig. 8 is a section on the line VIII-VIII, Fig. 1.

In the operation of the invention hereunder, there is provided a housing or shadow box structure, herein made up of a primary blank having a rectangular frame portion I from which are formed triangular cut-out 2 and a pair of slot cut-outs 3. These slot cut-outs 3 are in wings 4 having hinge connections 5 with the rectangular frame portion I. A cutting 6 severs the wings from the bottom of frame I. From intermediate the length of this line a cutting 1 extends so that these wings 4 may swing on the hinge portions 5 away from the rectangular frame portion I. In addition to this frame portion and wing unit blank, there .is a cardboard or sheet stock section as a unit having a strip 8 with a hinge 9 assembling integral therewith an extension In. provided with a hinge connection I I to a back section I2. In the full assembly hereunder, this strip 8 is joined by an adhesive I3 and wire staples or stitches I4 with an upper edge ofthe frame I along the region of the cut-out 2'. In such assembly with the frame I, the extension In will have a taper extent to ride upon the upper edges of the wings 4 in the instance in which the back I2 is a spacer between these wings 4 and has its ears I5 interlocked with the slots 3 for the set up assembly in this open bottom shadow box, in which the lower rear corners of these wings 4 provide the'support adjusting portions when the lower side of the frame I is resting on a d sk, counter or other surface.

Centrally, this back I2 has an opening I6 into I which maybe inserted socket I'I anchored by rubber friction rings ll.

55 with a resistance flasher portion so that electric Such socket is provided conductor lines I8 may cause an incandescent bulb I9 to warm up and then flash intermittently for a display. This rectangular frame I is reinforced along one side by the strip 8. The frame I is herein shown as about a transparency 20 of 5 glass. This glass in the frame I of this display provides or forms a marginal mirror or reflector portion 2I. This reflector portion 2I bounds a translucent field 22. There is herein shown in the field 22 a character or letter bounding region 1 23 of reflective or mirror value having intermediate character symbol or body 24, herein shown as a transparency. This transparency 24 may have contrast to differ from the transparency 22 say in color or value for thelight as passing therethrough.

This transparency 20 may be assembled with the frame I by a sheet metal frame 25 adapted to be snapped into position thereover as to L-sections thereof with-an interlocking tongue 26 completing the assembly between the adjoining sec- .tions. This sheet metal frame, say of a chrome finish, may give an attractive decorative value to the mirror portion M in this portable unit with an appeal markedly departing from the card-' board shadow box characteristics of the attention-efiecting display intermittent illumination.

In this strip 8, eyelets or cut-outs 21 are in position so that a hanger or'cord 28 may be assembled therewith to permit hanging of this readily-positioned display sign in .such a convenient place as might seem appropriate to the one using it for attention direction purposes, whether for attracting attention to a particular mechandise, thing to be done, or other analogous purpose.

This unit is accordingly one wherein the cardboard-like shadow box is readily collapsed by folding the wings 4. against the transparency rear side, thereafter folding the back section l2 toward the hinge 9 with the extension I 0 to form the outside of this collapsed shadow box formed from the two cardboard-like sectional units having the integral hinges between the respective sections thereof.

When set up with a light bulb I9 in the shadow box, ports 29 in the extension I 0 provide a ventilation draft from the shadow box against heating due to circulationup from a bottom opening or clearance 30.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A transparency having different opacity degree portions including a bounding section, a trim, and a cardboard-like shadow box assembled by the trim with the transparency. said box emv ow box comprising a pair of pieces from flat stock,

one being a frame of rectangular outline integral with cut portions thereof as a pair of wings, the

other being a back for spacing the free ends of the wings with a ventilator extension abutting the edge of each wing and anchored with the 5 frame.

CHARLES A. SMITH. 

